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'Really scary': Former aide reads new Trump indictment and warns he might 'do it again'

A former aide to Donald Trump said details from Tuesday’s indictment against her former boss accurately reflect the “really scary” situation in the aftermath of the 2020 election and warned that the former president may engage in similar behavior in the next election.

Alyssa Farah Griffin during an appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Tuesday called the prospect of Trump trying to overturn a future election – or even worse, serve another term – “terrifying.”

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Dem lawmaker dumps cold water on GOP claims: Hunter Biden pal 'completely absolves' president

A Democratic lawmaker who attended the closed-door testimony of Hunter Biden's former business associate threw cold water on Republican suggestions that President Joe Biden accepted bribes in business dealings involving his son.

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) told Fox News after the hearing that "there’s a lot of smoke" suggesting Biden corruption, but Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) strongly disputed the Kentucky Republican's claims during an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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Trump's shocking rape trial testimony could be used against him in Stormy Daniels case

The Manhattan district attorney is seeking to use Donald Trump's own testimony in a rape case against him in a trial on business fraud charges.

A federal judge will decide whether local prosecutors can obtain a video of the Oct. 19, 2022, deposition showing Trump shrugging off sexual misconduct by celebrities like himself, making misogynist remarks and remaining defiant about his predatory behavior, and that evidence stunned those in the courtroom in the sex abuse case involving E. Jean Carroll, reported The Daily Beast.

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All of Trump's 'yes' men are turning on him — and it's driving him 'nuts': legal analyst

One of the big problems former President Donald Trump will face, now that the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case is entering a new phase, is learning that many of his professed loyalists are secretly looking to save themselves, argued former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on MSNBC's "The ReidOut."

This comes as a new report reveals a Trump PAC has paid millions of dollars to provide the former president's co-defendants with legal counsel.

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Donald Trump Jr accuses Bidens of 'racketeering' after latest hearing falls flat

Donald Trump Jr. complained that Hunter Biden was trading on his famous name for personal benefit.

A former business partner testified Monday before a closed-door hearing of the House Oversight Committee that Biden sold the "illusion" of access to his father, but he offered no evidence connecting President Joe Biden to his son's business dealings -- although the twice-impeached former president suggested that he had.

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'Sinking' DeSantis in danger of falling out of second place: ex-Trump official

A Republican operative who worked in the Trump administration said that Ron DeSantis’ crumbling campaign has created an opening for a new No. 2 in the Republican presidential race.

But Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as Donald Trump’s White House director of strategic communications and now co-hosts "The View," said during an appearance on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” that any candidate serious about making a run at the nomination will have to take a more aggressive stance against her former boss.

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De Oliveira can still cut deal with DOJ – but Trump co-defendant likely running out of time: ex-FBI official

Carlos De Oliveira, the Mar-a-Lago property manager who last week became the third person indicted in connection with the special counsel’s probe of Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, likely still has a window through which he could cut a deal to cooperate with prosecutors, but it could soon close on him.
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe said Monday during an appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that De Oliveira, who was named in Thursday’s superseding indictment, wouldn’t be in a great bargaining position should he decide to pursue a cooperation deal.

De Oliveira was charged in connection with an alleged plot to conceal classified documents with Trump and his aide, Walt Nauta, and he was charged with four counts including conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to investigators.

Cooper asked McCabe if the ship on a cooperation agreement had “already sailed.”

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Kari Lake insists Trump's outsmarting Jack Smith as charges pile up: 'Playing chess at the highest level!'

Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake insisted Donald Trump was outsmarting special counsel Jack Smith despite new charges being added to the Mar-a-Lago case and an indictment looming in the Jan. 6 case.

The former president got hit with three new charges related to the destruction of evidence in the classified documents probe, but Lake told Newsmax the twice-impeached president had prosecutors exactly where he wants them.

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New indictment forces Judge Cannon to let Trump tape into evidence

The new charges against Donald Trump will likely force federal judge Aileen Cannon to allow a damning audio recording into the evidence against the former president, a legal expert told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

Special counsel Jack Smith secured a superseding indictment charging Trump with three new counts related to his alleged efforts to destroy evidence in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, and the new charges make note of his recorded interview with a writer and publisher, for which two aides were present, discussing a "highly confidential" military record that he admitted he wasn't authorized to share.

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'Reads like a Mafia case': Reporter stunned by 'mind-boggling' new charges against Trump

Donald Trump has been slapped with new charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, which a veteran correspondent compared to a Mafia investigation.

The former president was indicted Thursday on additional charges of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information in a superseding indictment, and another one of his employees was also charged in the case, and NBC News correspondent Ken Delanian explained the developments to MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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'Who's been given immunity?' MSNBC analyst says witness list is key in next round of Trump indictments

Donald Trump is bracing for two more rounds of indictments in Washington, D.C., and Georgia, and MSNBC's Claire McCaskill said she's most interested in seeing the witness list in each case.

Two separate grand juries are investigating the former president's efforts to overturn his election loss, and while the contours of the likely charges have been reported -- Fulton County prosecutors are considering racketeering and election fraud charges while the special counsel is weighing deprivation of rights, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and tampering with a witness.

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DC insider: Republicans have made up these 5 crises to distract you

Here are five totally made-up “crises” Republicans have invented to distract from the real crises facing Americans today: the growing concentration of wealth, the worsening climate crisis, and the undermining of our democracy.

Fake crisis #1: Anything they claim is “woke.”

Although Republicans struggle to define what “woke” even means, they’re constantly using it as a weapon to combat anything that seeks to foster tolerance and acceptance.

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Former GOP colleague of Mark Meadows: 'He's someone that would give up the president'

Former Republican Rep. David Jolly (FL) told MSNBC Wednesday that he thinks Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will flip against Donald Trump.

Meadows has remained largely quiet to the public, as former prosecutors speculate he has turned into a cooperating witness.

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